Abstract: In an experimental and theoretical study we model a phenomenon which occurs in the summer polar oceans; namely, the melting of flat sheets of either glacial ice or desalinated sea ice which float over sea water held at a ...

Abstract: During March 1979 field observations in the Bering Sea show that because of the interaction of winds and ocean swell with the ice, the ice edge divides into three distinct zones. First, adjacent to the open ocean is an ...

Abstract: An experimental study of the stability of a progressive internal wave of mode 3 propagating down a long tank filled with a linearly stratified salt solution is conducted over the range 0.45≤?3/N≤0.80, where ?3 is the paddle ...

Abstract: This paper discusses the behavior of the Arctic Ocean surface air temperature field for 1979?93. Temperatures are derived from a new gridded 6-h, 2-m air temperature dataset called POLES. These gridded air temperatures are ...

Abstract: This paper demonstrates the use of wavelet transforms in the tracking of sequential ice features in the ERS-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery, especially in situations where feature correlation techniques fail to ...

Abstract: The statistics of surface air temperature observations obtained from buoys, manned drifting stations, and meteorological land stations in the Arctic during 1979?97 are analyzed. Although the basic statistics agree with ...